Darning implement.



110,846,253. PATENTED MA R.- 5, 1907 G. SHEA-R. I

DARNING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.3, 1906.

Ga lruda flaw? 5 vwenkoz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERTRUDE SHEAR, OF BERGMAN, ARKANSAS.

DARNING IMPLEMENT.

casing mounted on the handle and having one of its walls provided with a plurality of openings, and a plurality of thread-carrying tively, in axial alinement with the several needles 3, while rotatively mounted in the casing is a series of thread-carrying spools or l No. 846,253. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 5, 1907. Application filed October 3, 1906. Serial No. 337,266. T0 w/wm/ it y 00711067711; 1 bobbins 10, corresponding in number to the Be it known that I, GERTRUDE SHEAR, a 5 number of needles and arranged,respectively, citizen of the United States, residing at Bergl beneath the slots 9, through which the man, in the State of Arkansas, have invented l threads from the bobbins are fed to the cornew and useful Improvements in Darning l responding needles 3. Implements, of which the following is a Employed in connection with the darning 5 5 specification. implement and for retaining the threads in This invention relates to darning imple the fabric during withdrawal of the needles ments of the type employed for mending 3, as will more fully hereinafter appear, is a knitted or other fabrics, and has for its obthread-holding implement or needle 11, prefjects to provide a comparatively simple in- I erably of the form illustrated in Fig. 4 and expensive device of this character whereby having at one end a finger pieceor ring 12. the darning operation may be rapidly and Inpractice the bobbins 10 having been effectually performed, one wherein the darnfilled with darning-thread and arranged in ing-thread will be properly supplied to the the casing 6, the threads from the bobbins needles while in actlon, and one which obviare drawn outward through the overlying ates necessity for repeatedly threading the slots or openings 9 and threaded through the needles as the darning progresses. eyes 5 of the corresponding needles. After the lVith these and other objects in view the needles have been properly threaded the invention comprises the novel features of con material of the fabric to be darned and at opstruction and combination of parts more posite sides of the worn place is gathered on fully hereinafter described. the needles 3 in accord with the usual method 111 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of darning, after which the instrument 11 is is a top plan view of an implement embodyengaged beneath and for holding the threads ing the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal while withdrawing the needles 3 from the section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. fabric, thereby drawing the threads from the 7 5 3 is a cross-section taken on the line 3 3 of I bobbins 10 and to extend in parallel relation Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the across the worn place, thus forming the founthread-holding instrument. elation-stitches. After thus performing the Referring to the drawings, it will be seen first step in the darning operation the threads that the implement embodies a handle 1, en-. are cut and the operation continued by work- So larged at its forward end to form a head 2, ing the instrument back and forth through having flattened side faces and a series of the fabric in the manner above explained, four or more needles 3 fixed at their rear ends but at right angles to the foundation-stitches in the head to project forwardly therefrom, in laying the cross-stitches, which are worked the outer ends of the needles, which are aralternately above and below the foundation- 8 5 ranged in spaced parallel relation, as shown, stitches, as usual in work of this character. being sharpened or pointed, as at 4, and pro- It is apparentthat as the darning operation vided adjacent their pointed ends with elonprogresses the threads will be properly fed gated thread-receiving eyes 5. from the bobbins to the needles and that the Fixed on the upper side face of the head is needles need necessarily be threaded but 0 a box or casing 6, having an upper hinged lid once during the entire darning operation. or cover 7, which may be held in closed po- Having thus described my invention, What sition by means of a spring-catch 8, there i I claim isbeing formed in the cover a plurality of' 1. Adarning instrument comprisingahanspaced longitudinal slots 9, arranged, respecdle, a plurality of needles carried thereby, a 5

bobbins rotatably mounted in the casing for feeding the threads through said openings to the respective needles.

2. A darning implement comprising a hendle, a plurality of forwardly-projecting needles carried thereby, a casing mounted on the handle, a plurality of thread-carrying bobbins rotatably mounted in the casing and a movable cover for the casing provided with a plurality of longitudinal slots disposed in IO alinement With the respective needles and constituting guides for the several threads.

In testimony whereof I a'lfix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GERTRUDE SHEAR. Witnesses:

CHARLOTTE BERGMAN, C. E. WILsoN. 

